Topic
PFAS
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The Energy Blog
Final Minimum Risk Levels for PFAS: What Do They Mean?
In May 2021, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) finalized a report containing toxicological profiles and associated Minimal Risk Levels (MRLs) for several perfluoroalkyls (PFAS), a…
PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
Surface Water Data in Pennsylvania Identifies PFAS in Multiple Locations Statewide
The march toward regulation of PFAS in Pennsylvania continues (see our recent post on statewide public water system sampling results), with the release of final data from sampling conducted in…
PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
California Expands Review of PFOS, PFOA to Include Cancer Risk
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is expanding its review of potential substances to add to its Proposition 65 list of chemicals that cause cancer. Earlier this…
S&W Environmental, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas Law
Arizona Governor Seeks PFAS Assistance from Feds
By Chris Colyer
by Patrick J. Paul On April 27, 2021 Governor Doug Ducey sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin requesting the Department of Defense (DOD) identify and treat water…
Mahany Law Blog
PFAS – Are Businesses Lying to Us?
By Brian Mahany
PFAS – Is This Deadly Killer in your Water? Don’t Trust Corporate America to Tell the Truth There is an interesting drama unfolding in sleepy Burlington, Vermont. It hasn’t attracted…
Environmental Law
Flurry of PFAS Actions in the First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: The Highlights
By Emily Lamond
The first 100 days of the Biden Administration saw a flurry of activities at the federal level seeking to address PFAS, a class of thousands of manmade chemicals notoriously known…
Mahany Law Blog
Maine PFAS Lawsuit – What Others Are Saying
By Brian Mahany
It took less than a month before the national legal media began focusing on our landmark class action lawsuit against Maine papermills for the contamination of drinking water in rural…
Energy & Environmental Law Adviser
EPA Considering Revised Effluent Limitations Guideline Relating to PFAS
By Matthew H. Griffin, Daniel J. Deeb
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a preliminary step toward requiring limits on some National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) discharges of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into…
Mahany Law Blog
BREAKING NEWS – Maine PFAS Legislation Clears Judiciary Committee
By Brian Mahany
Maine Cancer Victims and Those with Contaminated Wells May Be Getting Some Relief after the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee Approved PFAS Legislation that Makes It Easier to Sue For much of…
Mahany Law Blog
Surge of PFAS Lawsuits Pressures Legislators to Ban Deadly Pollutants
By Brian Mahany
In 2018, the Environmental Defense Fund submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA. What it found was shocking: in 2009 and 2010, the agency ignored warnings from…